History
It’s our twist on foods from America’s favorite Take Outs,
Taverns and Street Vendors!
The History of American Street Vendors
1860
German immigrants sold dachshund sausages from push carts in New York City’s bowery. They were served with milk rolls and sauerkraut.
1871
Charles Feltman opened the first Coney Island Hot Dog Stand.
1893
Chicago- “The Columbian Exposition.” The sausages were sold by vendors extending it outside NYC the same year the St. Louis Browns began selling them at ball parks.
1901
New York Polo Grounds- “Hot Dogs” Harry Stevens began selling dachshunds sausages. In the press box, cartoonist Tad Dorgan was nearing his deadline and didn’t know how to spell dachshund, so he called them hot dogs.
1904
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Anton Feuchtwangwer sold sausages while wearing white gloves. When he ran out, he asked his brother in law, a baker, for help. The hot dog bun was improvised.
1905
Hebrew National Hot Dogs are created.
1916
Nathan’s opens on Coney Island.
1925
The Bertman Family creates the first brown stadium mustard at Cleveland Stadium. It has received the Gold Medal at the Napa Valley Mustard Festival and has been taken on three space shuttle flights. It has been claimed the best mustard in the world.
2004
Seven billion hot dogs are consumed between Memorial Day and Labor Day; that’s 25 per every man, woman and child in America. 150 million hot dogs are eaten on the 4th of July.
2005
Street Meet opens on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.
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